Craig Martell

Craig Martell Head of Relevance Science and Engineering, LinkedIn Sales Solutions San Francisco Bay Area Connect Connect with Craig Martell More actions LinkedIn University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania See contact info See contact info See connections (500+) 500+ connections Highlights Reach out to Craig for... Advising companies, Mentoring, Joining a nonprofit. Message Craig Articles & activity 1,287 followers Comment on Reid Hoffman's "Disrupting the Diploma" Craig’s profile photo Craig Martell Published on LinkedIn I was very excited when I read Reid Hoffman’s post, Disrupting the Diploma; it touches on a timely and very important topic. By way of a small contribution to the discussion, I would like to make one addition to the remedies Reid offers: We also need to re-think the learning experience itself. Even today, universities still suffer from what I'll call pedagogical centralism. Namely, whether you take just a few courses to get credentialed in a skill or enough to get a four-year degree, whether you take them from one school or a variety of institutions, each course is still a centralized learning experience. You sit in a lecture hall — in person or virtually — for a fixed set of time, consuming chunks of knowledge pre-digested by the professor for the generic student. This traditional notion of teaching, which began in the Middle Ages, holds many back and leaves many behind. MOOCs, which were once all the rage, simply repackaged the 11th c. for delivery to the 21st. It is not surprising, then, that recently Coursera — and Udacity before it — pivoted towards skills-based training. If we want to build a system that allows for dynamic credentialing through-out a person’s career, then how they learn has to be decentralized as well. Most people don’t have the time to “sit” in a lecture for an hour on a regular basis and then do homework at the traditional 3-hours-to-1 ratio. Learning, and assessment with it, need to be seamlessly integrated into the way we live our modern, connected lives. A radical decentralization of pedagogical consumption is needed. I should be able to learn throughout the day in a device-independent, temporally-discontiguous way. However, and here’s the tricky part, it still has to feel like a single, unified experience. I am on board with Reid’s vision. It will be hard to implement, but the many benefits make it well worth the effort. (The author is a formerly tenured CS professor, now working on LinkedIn’s learning initiatives.) 173 Likes 12 Comments Like Comment Share See all articles Love this! Our fingers don't get longer as our phones get larger. Samsung is trying to tackle repetitive stress from using our phablets by keeping things within thumb's reach. Craig shared this 6 Likes 1 Comment Ryan Roslansky, Dude that is awesome! Nice!! Craig commented 5 Likes Nice! Congrats Zach. Craig commented See all activity Experience LinkedIn Company NameLinkedIn Total Duration5 yrs 3 mos TitleHead of Machine-Learning Science and Engineering, LinkedIn Sales Solutions Dates EmployedOct 2016 – Present Employment Duration2 yrs 3 mos LocationSan Francisco Bay Area TitleHead of Engineering for Learning Experience, LinkedIn Learning Dates EmployedMar 2015 – Sep 2016 Employment Duration1 yr 7 mos LocationSan Francisco Bay Area TitleHead of Machine-Learning Engineering - Data Standardization, Spam & Natural Language Processing Dates EmployedOct 2013 – Mar 2015 Employment Duration1 yr 6 mos LocationMountain View, CA National Laboratory for Education Transformation Senior Advisor, Relevance Science & Engineering Company NameNational Laboratory for Education Transformation Dates EmployedOct 2016 – Present Employment Duration2 yrs 3 mos Astound Advisor Company NameAstound Dates EmployedMar 2016 – Present Employment Duration2 yrs 10 mos LocationSan Francisco Bay Area http://astound.ai/ Pivotus Ventures Advisor Company NamePivotus Ventures Dates EmployedSep 2016 – Dec 2017 Employment Duration1 yr 4 mos LocationMenlo Park, CA Naval Postgraduate School Professor of Computer Science Company NameNaval Postgraduate School Dates EmployedDec 2003 – Sep 2015 Employment Duration11 yrs 10 mos LocationMonterey, CA Director, NPS Natural Language Processing Lab. • Lead large teams of researchers applying machine-learning/data-mining algorithms to build prototype social-media analysis tools for Dept. of Defense sponsors. ... See more Education University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Degree NamePh.D. Field Of StudyComputer Science